He said:
“It is with a heavy heart and somber mind that we remember and honor the victims, survivors, heroes of the Holocaust,” Trump said in a statement on Friday, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. “It is impossible to fully fathom the depravity and horror inflicted on innocent people by Nazi terror.”
But, he added, “We know that in the darkest hours of humanity, light shines the brightest. As we remember those who died, we are deeply grateful to those who risked their lives to save the innocent.”
In the name of the perished, Trump wrote, “I pledge to do everything in my power throughout my Presidency, and my life, to ensure that the forces of evil never again defeat the powers of good.”
Quite honestly, I think his speech was succinct. Just because he didn't say the word 'Jew', so what?. He was referring to the list below.
If he
would have mentioned Jews then people could complain that he didn't mention, Jehovah Witnesses, Ethnic Poles, Serbs, Disabled, Romani, Freemasons, Slovanenes, homosexuals & Spanish Republicans.
According to the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), the country's official memorial to
the Holocaust.
I speak as a Jew who would have had several more uncles, aunts and cousins if not for the holocaust.